The people closely associated with the namesake of female canines are suffering from a nondescript form of lunacy.
"Anti-environmentalism is like standing in front of a forest and going 'quick kill them they're coming right for us!'" - Jake Farr-Wharton, The Imaginary Friend Show.

The people closely associated with the namesake of female canines are suffering from a nondescript form of lunacy.
"Anti-environmentalism is like standing in front of a forest and going 'quick kill them they're coming right for us!'" - Jake Farr-Wharton, The Imaginary Friend Show.

Your creationist protagonist is, as all theists are, struggling with the "continuum" concept... that from the smallest particles though a long, long process of mergers and acquisitions (symbiosis, predator / prey... whether talking about chemical bonding or galaxies colliding or the gases we suck into our lungs) there were no step-changes, no leaps, no interventions (divine or otherwise).

Realising this helps us to understand that "life" is merely a label we apply to the more complex combinations of molecules... The more advanced machines.

From a Reductionist perspective, all "life"forms are made entirely of non-life.

Will they really be coaxed into opening a science book?
Would a better approach be to ask why they believe in magic. Ask them to explain why this magic does not happen every day.